Globalization, Science, and Technology

Green Revolution

• Science gets involved in increasing the food supply because are performed that there might not be enough food to go around since the world population is increasing

  • Insecticides

  • Pesticides

  • GMOs

• In the mid-20th century to the 2000s, there is an increased focus on environmentalism

  • Recycling, stuff like that

• Green Revolution is the idea that human beings have reached the point where they can manipulate the environment, they can make the environment adjust to meet their own needs

• Rachel Carsen - Wrote a book about the use of pesticides and their effects on the environment, birth defects on animals, etc.

Capitalism

• Capitalism wins the 20th century coming out of World War II and the collapse of the Soviet Union

• Spreads at a global level and becomes a big thing on the global level

  • China - Deng Xiaoping

    • Continues China after Mao and continues Communism, he oversees the Communism economy failing and then he created special economic zones (free market) to stimulate the economy

    • Made China into the economic powerhouse it is today

    • People started to protest to get other western rights like free speech and free elections along with this cool Capitalism thing

      • Tianemen Square - nothing happened

  • US - Ronald Reagan

  • Britain - Margaret Thatcher

  • Chile - Augusto Pinochet

HARE KRISHNA

• Hare Krishna movement is a branch of Hinduism, formally known as Gaudiya Vaishnavism

• White people practicing Hinduism

• Name comes from the Hare Krishna chant

• Started in the 1500s by Sri Chaitanya of Bengal (1486 - 1533)

• Emphasized the worship of Krishna and believed that chanting the names of God was so powerful that in addition to one’s own meditation on them, they should also be chanted in the streets for the benefit of all

• Swami Prabhupada

  • Brought the movement to the US (called the International Society of Krishna Consciousness)

  • Public dancing became its trademark